8-WEEK INTENSIVES
8-WEEK: GETTING IT DONE—96 HOURS TOWARDS A FINISHED DRAFT with Sarah Schantz
August 19, 2024 - October 7, 2024 | 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT | Virtual
Every writer has the same goal: I’m going to finish my draft … soon. Then we get distracted. Before we know it, “soon” becomes “later” and our draft still isn’t done. This eight-week, 96-hour intensive writing experience is your chance to flip the script. Meets three times a week.
8-WEEK: THE POWER OF PLAY with Nini Berndt
August 19, 2024 - October 7, 2024 | 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT | Virtual
A little known secret: Writing can be fun. It can be explosive, enchanting, wild, alive, frightening in it's ability to transform not just the page, but us, our understanding of the world and our place in it.
8-WEEK: IMMERSIVE NONFICTION with Abe Streep
August 20, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
How fully can we understand the experiences of other people? As writers, how can and should we convey our view of those experiences? In this workshop, we’ll study techniques used in literary and immersive journalism and discuss how they can be applied to all forms of creative nonfiction.
8-WEEK: ADVANCED NONFICTION—BEYOND THE "ME" IN MEMOIR with Anna Qu
August 20, 2024 - October 15, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
This workshop is for practicing writers working on reported narratives, first-person essays, and memoir who are in need of feedback and a supportive writing community to dive deeper into their texts.
8-WEEK: INTRO TO WRITING THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND MEMOIR with Vanessa Mártir
August 21, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
This workshop will help you understand how to turn your own experiences into riveting stories with universal themes. Through craft talks, class discussion, homework assignments, and close readings of published work, the class will introduce you to the possibilities and pitfalls of personal narrative.
8-WEEK: ADVANCED LONG-FORM NARRATIVE—NOVEL AND MEMOIR with Benjamin Whitmer
August 21, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Hybrid
Whether fiction or memoir, taking on a book-length narrative can be overwhelming. Whichever you’re working on, this class is designed to help guide you through the process and refine your work in progress.
8-WEEK: START AND FINISH THE BOOK—A CRASH COURSE with Andrea Dupree
August 22, 2024 - October 17, 2024 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm MDT | Hybrid
What's better than hitting a groove with a project, when everything feels automatic? This workshop is designed for writers working on fiction or nonfiction books who could benefit from the weekly, rotating mentorship of writers who have recently made it through to the other side.
8-WEEK: OUTWARD-FACING MEMOIR with Helen Thorpe
August 22, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | 9:30am - 11:30am MDT | In-Person
This course will focus on the use of personal narrative to tell a bigger story; that bigger story could be about an entire community, a profession, or a particular issue dear to your heart.
8-WEEK: WORKS IN PROGRESS—PROSE with Sarah Schantz
August 22, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
This class is a workshop and writer's group for prose writers designed to give you that precious window to work and to simultaneously bring to life your works-in-progress via a process aimed at establishing and maintaining a steady momentum.
8-WEEK: INTERMEDIATE MEMOIR AND PERSONAL ESSAY with Natalie Hodges
August 22, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
This class is well-suited for writers who have completed Intro to Personal Narrative and Memoir, and who are looking to hone their writing with deeper and more specific discussions of craft and revision.
8-WEEK: EIGHT WEEKS, EIGHT STARTS—FICTION AND NONFICTION (ASYNCHRONOUS) with Christopher Merkner
August 26, 2024 - October 14, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Virtual Via Wet Ink
This generative course is an ideal fit for intermediate and advanced writers of prose at any point of their projects looking to get themselves rolling at the start of a new year.
8-WEEK: FIVE PAGES FEEDBACK with Paula Younger
August 28, 2024 - October 16, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | In-Person
This class is designed for writers who want feedback on their projects, but don't have the time for workshop.
4-WEEK INTENSIVES
4-WEEK: CONFESSIONAL WRITING with Karlié Rodríguez
August 19, 2024 - September 9, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
In this four-week course, we’ll study confessional poems, essays, and auto-fiction to better learn the conventions of the confessional genre.
4-WEEK: WRITING 101—GOTTA START SOMEWHERE with Joy Roulier Sawyer
August 20, 2024 - September 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
In this experiential, non-critiquing writing workshop, you'll immerse yourself in a wide variety of writing exercises, learn to use your journal as a creative catalyst, assess your writing strengths, set do-able writing goals, reflect on and learn from your own writing process, and discuss future Lighthouse workshop options.
4-WEEK: STORY BUILDER I—TENSION with Rachel Weaver
August 20, 2024 - September 10, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Hybrid
This series of four classes is co-taught by Rachel Weaver and Erika Krouse, and covers the four major aspects of crafting your story: tension, plot, characterization, and scene.
4-WEEK: A SENSE OF PLACE with Lisa Kennedy
August 20, 2024 - September 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
In this craft course, we'll explore how to make a place—a bedroom, a neighborhood, a tavern, a region, and so on—come alive.
4-WEEK: CREATIVE NONFICTION 101 with Lisa Kennedy
August 21, 2024 - September 11, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
Interested in writing nonfiction but not sure where to start? This class is the place.
4-WEEK: RESEARCHING REAL LIFE with Steve Knopper
August 22, 2024 - September 12, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
Are there holes in your memoir, creative nonfiction, or historical fiction? Sometimes when a piece isn’t coming to life, feels thin, or when you just need something to take you in a new and exciting direction, research is the answer.
4-WEEK: BETWIXT, STRETCHED, OF-THE-MOMENT—HYBRID AND UNEXPECTED FORMS with Jessica Roeder
August 26, 2024 - September 12, 2024 | 24hrs | Virtual Via Wet Ink
A new four-week session welcoming new and returning Betwixters, this class will explore more ways of mixing things up—poetry and prose, text and image, one extreme and another, abstract and concrete, old and new, fact and fiction, constraint and freedom.
4-WEEK: WRITING 101—GOTTA START SOMEWHERE with Joy Roulier Sawyer
September 17, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
In this experiential, non-critiquing writing workshop, you'll immerse yourself in a wide variety of writing exercises, learn to use your journal as a creative catalyst, assess your writing strengths, set do-able writing goals, reflect on and learn from your own writing process, and discuss future Lighthouse workshop options.
4-WEEK: WRITING THE BODY with Alexander Lumans
September 17, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Virtual
From a perspective of empathy, honesty, and risk, we’ll read contemporary writers who intentionally depict the body in various styles. We’ll also write about bodies in our own work through prompts that give us new permissions in a safe space.
4-WEEK: STORY BUILDER II—YOUR PLOT with Rachel Weaver
September 17, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Virtual
This series of four classes is co-taught by Rachel Weaver and Erika Krouse, and covers the four major aspects of crafting your story: tension, plot, characterization, and scene.
4-WEEK: ADVANCED NONFICTION—MAPPING YOUR BOOK with Lauren Markham
September 18, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
Do you have a nonfiction book idea, and are struggling to get started? Or perhaps you are neck-deep in a book project and struggling to stay afloat. In this intensive four-week workshop, we’ll take stock of our ideas for our book, our dreams and our fears, our sticking points, and map a way forward with all of this in mind.
4-WEEK: FLASH PROSE with Jenny Wortman
September 23, 2024 - October 18, 2024 | 24hrs | Virtual Via Wet Ink
In this class, we’ll look at what puts the flash in flash fiction and nonfiction, examining topics such as urgency, intensity, movement, and more.
4-WEEK: USING THE EXTERIOR TO EXPRESS THE INTERIOR with Sarah Schantz
September 23, 2024 - October 14, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
In this workshop we'll look at how to show interiority of characters using the setting that serves as the stage on which our characters perform.
4-WEEK: SPARK AND RE-SPARK—RE-IGNITE YOUR CRAFT AND CREATIVITY with Joy Roulier Sawyer
September 23, 2024 - October 14, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
Revive your most powerful and productive writing core and recover your momentum and morale in this four-week intervention designed to reignite your creativity.
4-WEEK: VOLCANO, MASK, SHELL, HAND—A GENERATIVE WORKSHOP with Jessica Roeder
September 30, 2024 - October 27, 2024 | 24hrs | Virtual Via Wet Ink
Follow four simple objects into new places in your writing. Each week, we’ll focus on one object in its many possibilities, using poetry and prose, visual art, museum collections, memory, creative prompts, and the world at hand for inspiration.
